easter breakfast...

photo by blake spencer

The fishing disciples couldn't make out
who was standing on the shoreline,
but they heard a voice shout,

"So you've haven't caught any fish?"

The words scooted across the lake top
hovering over the disciples
like those first words
hovered over the newly created waters
in the beginning.

"No," they answered.

The dark void
and chaos
of the prior week
still had a hold on them.

"If you haven't caught any fish,
then drop your net on the right side of the boat.
Go ahead."

So they did.
They threw their nets out on the right side.

Soon their empty nets
were full,
of every kind of fish.

The fullness of their nets
was their new beginning.
With the abundance of their catch
the disciples lifted their heads.

When they lifted their heads
their hearts were lifted
and their eyes were opened.

They noticed who it was
on the shoreline.

With words and
breakfast...
grief
emptied,
denial
faded into
forgiveness,
and the fullness
God so longs
to breathe into
each and every
one of us
dawned
just at the
break of the day.

John 21